[70628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ntp config tech note
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Thu May 20 17:19:58 2004
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:16:59 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>,
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8765aqg5vk.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu May 20, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> It's not clear to me why Randy considered this newsworthy enough to
> post to NANOG, nor why he feels the need to "write it up" rather than
> just sending his internal customer an excerpt of the man page, where
> this behavior is clearly documented (and has been since at least xntp3
> circa 1997). Is it possible he's decided to compete with the guys who
> discovered last week that CSMA networks are vulnerable to jabber?
Or, maybe, as he alluded to in his email, he's just trying to get us to
talk about something other than spam ;-)
Simon
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